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First you must decompress the sources:
cd /tmp tar zxvf qemu-x.y.z.tar.gz cd qemu-x.y.z
Then you configure QEMU and build it (usually no options are needed):
./configure make
Then type as root user:
make install
to install QEMU in /usr/local.
In order to compile QEMU successfully, it is very important that you
have the right tools. The most important one is gcc. On most hosts and
in particular on x86 ones, gcc 4.x is not supported. If your
Linux distribution includes a gcc 4.x compiler, you can usually
install an older version (it is invoked by gcc32
or
gcc34
). The QEMU configure script automatically probes for
these older versions so that usually you don't have to do anything.